Insightful

We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures.

Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

Mindfulness is not about achieving or gaining, it’s about acceptance and the relinquishing of material desire. When you’re charging $10 a month with the promise of a ‘better life’, can you really be holding true to that compassionate and egalitarian vision?

Finding meaning in something random was described by researchers as an important factor in the formation of paranormal and delusional beliefs, and has been found to be implicated in vulnerability to schizophrenia.

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that we have grown wildly estranged from genuine wisdom or the humility with which erudition tempers facile notions of invincibility.

Our initial findings suggest that open goals can lead to performance at least as good as (and in some cases better than) SMART goals

We have never before had access to so many perspectives, ideas, and information. Much of it is fleetingly interesting but ultimately inconsequential—not to be confused with expertise, let alone wisdom.

The Eightfold Path, however, is holistic. Each branch is intrinsically linked, and intended to be followed concurrently. Without understanding the seven other forms of guidance, let alone practising them, mindfulness becomes stripped of its essential meaning

If you are meditating in order to grow the wealth of your business then you are approaching the act with, as Buddhist’s would say, wrong intention